Long, long ago, Bill Sommerfeld wrote (regarding his i386 MP test
kernels):
> Test cases I'm interested in:
...
> - more than 1 I/O APIC.
Has anyone tested this? I note that a search of the mailing list archives
for "ioapic1" comes up blank. I ask because at work we've just obtained a
machine that Linux reports as having two IO APICs, and I can probably get
away with booting NetBSD on it briefly if that would be useful. I tried
to boot last February's test floppies, and got a panic from UVM somewhere
before the APICs were detected. Is there a more recent set of MP floppies
I can try booting?
FWIW, the machine has an Intel server board, and Linux says (amongst an
awful lot of other stuff):
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: INTEL Product ID: STL2 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #3 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
...
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
...
Bus #0 is PCI
Bus #1 is PCI
Bus #2 is ISA
I/O APIC #4 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
I/O APIC #5 Version 17 at 0xFEC01000.
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Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26 <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>